Ausbuy
The Australian Companies Institute (Ausbuy) is a not-for-profit; non-political organisation that encourages Australians to support Australian owned and made products and services, so that the jobs and profits stay in Australia and the decisions are made by Australians.
History and background
Ausbuy was founded in 1991 by Harry Wallace as a result of his family business of 120 years closing. [1]
Objectives
Ausbuy’s aims to create public awareness of and promote products that are grown, made and owned by Australian companies.
- Lobbies governments on such issues as labelling laws, foreign takeovers of Australian companies and competition issues.
- Publishes the Ausbuy Guide which is designed to enable the Australian public to identify and support the product and services offered by Australian owned companies.
- A logo which it licenses to its members so that they can differentiate their products and allow the consumer to identify them as being provided by Australian owned companies.
- It arranges promotions with supermarkets to assist the members to sell their products.
- It publishes a newsletter.[2]
See also
References
- ^ Gallagher, Michael M.; in: Fischer, Wolfgang Chr. & Mwenda, Kenneth K., Country of Origin - A Law and Economics Approach to the Concept of Made in Australia, 1st Edition, Koeln - Lohmar, Germany 2007, p.25
- ^ Gallagher 2007, p.29
External links
- Ausbuy
- [1] "Buy Australian made" / Wolfgang Chr. Fischer and Peter Byron
- [2] Country of Origin : A law and economics approach to the concept of Made in Australia / Wolfgang Chr. Fisher, Kenneth K. Mwenda
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